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28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

28th September 2019
Tagged as: Discovery, Disease, Drugs, Health, Medicine, Science

On the 28^th September 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming laid for the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine when he discovered the world’s first antibiotic.

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22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison

22nd July 2019
Tagged as: cocaine, Columbia, Drugs, Escape, Pablo Escobar, Prison, Smuggling, USA

Referred to mockingly as ‘Hotel Escobar’, the prison was staffed by guards chosen by the drugs lord himself.

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28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison

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19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard

17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

15th November 1917: Georges Clemenceau appointed Prime Minister of France

14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school

13th November 1002: Æthelred the Unready orders the St Brice’s Day Massacre

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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